Results 12,141-12,160 of 34,618 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ruth Foley, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We are dealing with the Department of Health and the HSE under the Department of Health appropriation accounts, Vote 38 for 2016 and the HSE financial statements 2017....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We made a request last week for specific individuals. One is on certified sick leave and the other will come on another date. Correspondence No. 1439provides follow up information from the HSE in respect of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. Correspondence Nos. 1440 and 1441 are from an individual making inquiries about HSE circulars not circulated or implemented and HSE employees...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: For this session we are joined by the HSE director general, Mr. John Connaghan; Dr. Peter McKenna, acting clinical director of CervicalCheck; Mr. Ray Mitchell; and from the Department of Health, we are joined by Mr Jim Breslin, Secretary General and Ms Tracey Conroy, assistant secretary, acute hospitals division. I remind members, witness and those in the Public Gallery to switch off their...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Time is tight and I am being generous, so the hour will only start after I have finished my bit, in fairness to the other members. That flow chart, which is now up on the screen, does not answer the question. It starts talking about the GP surgery and the whole way along, the forms going out and coming back. All we want to know is when the laboratories that were contracted by the HSE to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We do not need to know of the process before that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: That is exactly my point. For those who cannot see the chart, it details that women participating in cervical screening go to the general practitioner, GP, clinics and the laboratory has a collection system involving a pre-addressed envelope being sent to the laboratory for processing. The laboratory reports are then sent to the GPs or clinics. Are the witnesses saying that when the work...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: We are discussing the misdiagnoses which were marked as normal and in which cases the results do not correspond with the conclusion. Are the witnesses stating that smears went from a doctor to the laboratory and back and CervicalCheck had no medical involvement in the results?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Why did the senior people in the HSE not have a quality assurance mechanism in place to verify from the point of view of the HSE and CervicalCheck that the work carried out by the contractors was valid? Nobody in a public organisation for which a contractor is doing a job accepts that the work is done satisfactorily on the basis of the contractor sending back a report. Rather, the results...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Should CervicalCheck have a role in checking the results that come back from contracted laboratories?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am asking about individual cases. I do not wish to waste time. The witnesses were asked a very specific question. I am dealing solely with a question asked on the previous occasion the witnesses were before the committee and also submitted in writing. The witnesses stated that it is possible that no medical staff may be involved in the process. The committee asked for the sample of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: The patient results sent to CervicalCheck are not usually checked by a medical professional in the HSE, which writes the cheque for the work to be done on behalf of the individual patients. That is my understanding of the situation and it is part of the problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay. The hour to be spent on CervicalCheck will start now. The following speakers have indicated: Deputies Alan Kelly, David Cullinane and Catherine Murphy. Each Deputy will have a five-minute slot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I was doing my work as Chairman on behalf of the committee in bringing up the request for information we sought but did not receive.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Kelly's five minutes begins now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask Deputy Kelly to allow Mr. Connaghan to respond as there are other members waiting to contribute.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Cullinane.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy had a five-minute slot and he spent it putting questions with no opportunity for answers. The five minutes allocated to each speaker is inclusive of questions and answers. I will allow a quick response to the third question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I remind members that there is not five minutes allowed for questions and ten minutes for answers. We have only one hour on this topic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: I ask Dr. McKenna to revert to the committee on the matter before next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will Dr. McKenna come back to us on the timescale?